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by 6thbit 56 days ago
don’t attach to a single AI provider when you can attach to cloudflare as your single AI gateway provider!

rant aside, they are greatly positioned network wise to offer this service, i wonder about their princing and potential markup on top of token usage?

i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

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> i presume they wont let you “manage all your AI spend in one place” for free.

Of course they will. In return they get to control who they’re routing requests to. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns I to the LLM equivalent of “paying for order flow”.

i got shivers thinking about a future ai dynamic pricing and automatic gateway choosing the cheapest provider available
shivers? as in it frightens you? i believe there is no way around tokens being prices like gasoline at the gas station - it changes every hour. Any other system means you are either over- or underspending.
Openrouter already does this, unless I've misunderstood the premise.
They can route between models but you pay the standard rate for whichever model is selected (plus 5% fee). Afaik all current model providers have fixed prices per tokens which don't vary depending on, say, demand or hardware availability.